Help using Event Me
Here you will find answers to most of your questions. Please feel free to contact us regarding any further comments and questions that you have.
Questions Subscribers might have
Questions Organizers might have
Questions Event Me Sponsors might have
Subscribers
What is Event Me all about?
What about my privacy?
How do I register?
How do I unsubscribe?
What's up with your unsubscribing of inactive subscribers?
How can I get invited to more events?
How do I change my password?
How do I change my email address?
Where does Event Me promote events?
Why can't I just browse a list of events in my area and choose
for myself?
What happens when I'm "invited" to an event?
Can my friends join me for an event I am invited to?
Do I have to pay for this service?
Can I promote events through Event Me?
What can I do to make Event Me better?
Can I make suggestions regarding additional features and other
improvements?
Still have questions? Contact us
Event Organizers
What is Event Me all about?
Where does Event Me promote events?
What are your fees?
Can I add subscribers to my own distribution list?
When is a good time to start promoting an event?
What information is relevant for good matching?
Can I include a link to another website in the invitation?
What are the RSVP options with Event Me?
Why don't I get the invitation to my own event?
How can I increase the number of clicks I get?
What can I do to make Event Me better?
Can I make suggestions regarding additional features and other
improvements?
Still Have Questions? Contact Us
Event Me Sponsors
Why don't I get my own ad?
Can I make suggestions regarding additional features and other
improvements?
Still Have Questions? Contact Us
Subscribers
What is Event Me all about?
You may be tempted to compare Event Me to the events announcements in your
newspaper or city magazine, but the difference is that instead of event organizers
advertising their events, it is you who "advertises" yourself to get invited
to events that you are interested in. The only thing you have to do is to describe
your event preferences and your general interests, and organizers of interesting
events can find and invite you. You benefit because event organizers can create
events more targeted to your preferences, other attendees will be more compatible
with you than at random events, and you don't miss events, because instead of having
to search for them, you actually get invited.
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What about my privacy?
Because we don't have your name and address, we can't expose it to anyone. And we
never give out your email address. Instead, we forward the invitations to you on
behalf of event organizers. Similarly, we use your account information only for
matching; none of this information will ever be revealed to people other than you.
Please review our Privacy Policy for
details.
Some event organizers may ask you for some information about you when you RSVP for
their events. For this, they might use Event Me's online rsvp system. However, Event
Me never combines this information with your account. We encourage you to ask event
organizers questions about their privacy policy and what they are going to do with
information that you give to them.
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How do I register?
Simply go to this page and start by providing some
rather general information. Using this, we will then present you with questions
that we will keep as relevant to you as possible. You can complete this personalized
process or terminate early. In either case you will get to your "My preferences"
page where you'll get an overview of all your information and from where you can
access areas of your event preferences that you have not edited yet. You can always
reach your "My preferences" page by logging into www.EventMe.com and make desired
changes. To login, you need your email address registered with us and your password,
both of which we will also email you to confirm your registration.
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How do I unsubscribe?
If you want to delete your subscriber account, simply email invite@EventMe.com with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. Or you can log
in to your account and follow the link to "unsubscribe" on the "My preferences page".
You can also find this personalized link in the footer of all our invitation and
calendar emails.
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What's up with your unsubscribing of inactive subscribers?
Every two months or so, we email Subscribers who have not opened any of our emails,
clicked on any of the links, nor logged into their online account for some time.
Simply clicking a provided link and/or logging in at www.EventMe.com signals us to keep the corresponding account active. We
unsubscribe all accounts that still have shown no activity about two weeks later.
We do this so that we don't clog email inboxes of Subscribers who are no longer
interested in our emails without them having to do anything. Many ISPs who handle
your email (like Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, etc.) also notice that only a small number
of our emails is left unread. This helps them in deciding to put our emails in your
inbox and not into your junk/spam folder.
Unfortunately, we can't always know whether our emails are being read - only if
you get our html emails and allow their images to be shown we can tell whether you
open them. Therefore, you might find yourself included in such an unsubscription
effort even if you are a regular reader of our emails. Getting the html version
of our emails and allowing images to be shown will keep your account protected.
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How can I get invited to more events?
- The simplest way to get invited to more events is to select more activities. Generally
speaking, the more preferred activities you have selected, the more invitations
you will get.
- Because many events are of interest only to subscribers with special interests or
particular demographic backgrounds, it is a good idea to provide much of this information,
too. For example, you will only get invited to a some networking events in your
industry if you've specified your field(s) of work, and you will only get invited
to some charity events if you have specified your advocacy interests. This general
information is also essential to help ensure that we are inviting a group of people
with compatible interests to the same event.
- You can vastly increase the number of invitations you receive by providing additional
postal/zip codes indicating approximate areas in which you would go to events. For
example, you might be working in a different city or neighborhood than you are living
in or travel regularly to a different city and/or country.
- All the preferences you list that refer to events in general (e.g., smoking policies) are already set as defaults so that you are most likely
to get invited to events that match your activity preferences. By being more explicit
and stating selective preferences, you'll get invited less often to events
that don't match those preferences.
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How do I change my password?
Login at Event Me and click on "Change my password."
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How do I change my email address?
Login at Event Me and click on "Change my Email Address." We will
send a confirmation of the change both to your old and new email addresses.
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Where does Event Me promote events?
Event Me can work anywhere in the world, but it is still a very young service
and is most active in the New York metropolitan area. We also have a rapidly growing
number of subscribers and events in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia,
Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. and expect to
see other cities becoming active soon.
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Why can't I just browse a list of events in my area and choose
for myself?
You should still look to your daily newspaper or preferred city guide for events
that run on a regular schedule, like movies and theaters. As a matter of fact, we
also publish a lists of upcoming public events (see links in the footer of our site for your city).
However, it can get tedious to browse through endless listings of events, only a
few of which appeal to you. And since it is impossible to search all listings on
a regular basis, you often miss out on interesting events. By using Event Me,
you actually receive personalized invitations to events that have already been preselected
to match your interests.
Also, even our calendar of public events doesn't list many of the events our subscribers
get invited to: Many event organizers do not use public listings at all for their
events but instead invite specially selected individuals. Event Me allows you
to be one of the special invitees without being on hundreds of "A-lists".
You can also find the list of upcoming events that you have been invited to in your
"My events" section that you can reach after logging in. This can come
in handy if you can't find the email invitation anymore or you want to get an overview
of all your invitations.
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What happens when I'm "invited" to an event?
Each time we promote an event organizer's event, we have compared it with as much
of your information as possible. You have to have both stated your interest in the
planned type of event and match the event organizer's expectations about his or
her target audience in order for us to send you the invitation on behalf of the
organizer.
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Can my friends join me for an event I am invited to?
In most cases, the event organizer won't mind if you forward his or her invitation
to your friends if you believe that they are interested in the event. You will also
be welcome to RSVP for or simply show up with your friends. However, some event
organizers will request in their invitation that you don't forward the invitation
and/or bring friends with you. Please do not disregard their wishes. You can always
encourage your friends to join Event Me themselves to avoid getting tired of always
forwarding invitations to them.
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Do I have to pay for this service?
No. Subscribers use Event Me for free. You can also list your event free of charge in our calendar. However, organizers pay a fee for dedicated mailings of their invitations.
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Can I promote events through Event Me?
Anybody can promote an event through Event Me. You can find more information
here.
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What can I do to make Event Me better?
Thank you for asking! We greatly appreciate you subscribing to our service. The more subscribers we can reach, the more relevant we become to the organizers in your community. That in turn enables us to tell you about more diverse local events that matter to you. Besides telling your friends about us you can help us by linking to our site from your website, social media sites, or blog (if you have one). If you know of a great event, tell the organizer to get it listed on Event Me, for free. And don't forget to tell your friends in the media world about us!
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Can I make suggestions regarding additional features and other
improvements?
We're still developing new features and ways to use Event Me, and your input
is crucial. If you have any suggestions for new features or other improvements,
please write to us at invite@EventMe.com.
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Still have questions? Contact us
Having trouble with a link, think you have found a bug, or still haven't found the
answer to your questions? Write to us at invite@EventMe.com
or use the contact form, and we will help you!
Event Organizers
What is Event Me all about?
Event Me offers targeted mailing lists for your events - lists that consist
only of people who meet the demographics, interests and other criteria you specify.
Each mailing list is uniquely created for just your event, and you are completely
free to specify the demographics of your target audience as you wish. Event Me
lets you promote just about any event with any audience that you can imagine - whether
you want to hike with a small number of nice people or throw a huge launch party
for a new car model.
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Where does Event Me promote events?
Our service is most active in the New York metropolitan area. We also have
a rapidly growing number of subscribers and events in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles,
Miami, Philadelphia, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Washington,
D.C. and expect to add other cities soon.
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What are your fees?
We between $19 and $99 to list your event in our online and emailed calendars. You can choose to promote your event through an even more effective dedicated email (only your event, with graphics, your subject line) at any time. The fee starts at $99 ($49 outside of NYC.) Your event will also be included in our emailed and online calendars for your audience and for an appropriate duration.
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Can I add subscribers to my own distribution list?
Though we do not provide you with the email addresses of the subscribers in the
Matching List that we create for you, you can obviously ask everybody who replies
to your invitation or who attends your event to join your own mailing list.
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When is a good time to start promoting an event?
That depends on your activity and your needs. Some events, such as professional
conferences or week-long hiking trips, need to be promoted well in advance in order
to reach a sufficiently large number of participants. However, you can also use
Event Me for a last-minute promotion of one of your events. You can always
promote your event to more subscribers in additional promotional steps.
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What information is relevant for good matching?
Make sure that you describe your event as comprehensively as possible in your own
terms. You should also describe your preferred target audience as precisely as possible
so that Event Me can provide a list with the best possible matches. Most likely,
we will have additional ideas how to further improve the targeting. Click here for more information about the kind of data that we have about
our subscribers.
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Can I include a link to another website in the invitation?
Yes. Feel free to include links to your event's website (if you have one). However,
please try any provided link first to make sure that it works.
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What are the RSVP options with Event Me?
You can take RSVPs in any way you want. We recommend to use online rsvp systems.
EventBrite's service
is one that many of our organizers are using.
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Why don't I get the invitation to my own event?
We only send out your invitation to (or include your listing in the calendars of)
subscribers who match the criteria for your target audience. In many cases, your
Subscriber event preferences might not match your own targeting criteria: Your age,
your location, your gender, your interests, or any other criteria can be a reason
why you are not seeing your own event as a Subscriber.
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How can I increase the number of clicks I get?
A click on one of your links indicates a very strong interest in your offer. Most
people who click are very likely to turn into buyers. That's why it's important
to have an attractive landing page that gives more information and makes it easy
to buy tickets.
We don't think it's a good idea though to hide information (like ticket prices)
in order to increase clicks. Instead, we encourage you to get all relevant information
out right away. This way you maximize the number of qualified clicks that
will convert into ticket buyers.
You might also want to try our dedicated emails in addition to the calendar listing
(if you are not doing so already.) This way, your event doesn't share the attention
of our subscribers with other events in the calendar email.
The key to generate more clicks and ticket sales is an attractive presentation of
your event. The title of the event needs to be descriptive and as short as possible.
Try to summarize the benefits of attending in bullet points. In the event listing,
keep the description free of any information that can be put in the other fields,
including the link area.
Finally, ask yourself if your event can compete with similar offers in the market.
Does it provide more benefits for the same or a lower price?
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What can I do to make Event Me better?
Thank you for asking! We greatly appreciate the events that you create and list with Event Me. The more subscribers we can reach with your events, the happier you are. And more subscribers also mean that we can make a real difference for you when you need help with more unusual events, or events in less central locations. Since we are listing your events for free, we are asking you to kindly tell your members and subscribers about our site. For example, you can permanently link to us on your sites, or mention us on your social media properties. While this is not required in order to get listed, please consider that our listings already permanently link to your properties.
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Can I make suggestions regarding additional features and other
improvements?
Yes! We're still developing new features and ways to use Event Me, and your
input is vital to our success. If you have any suggestions for new features we can
offer or for any other improvements, write us at invite@EventMe.com.
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Still Have Questions? Contact Us
Having trouble with a link, think you have found a bug, or still haven't found the
answer to your questions? Write to us at (invite@EventMe.com)
or use the contact form, and we will help you!
Event Me Sponsors
Why don't I get my own ad?
We only send out your ad to (or include your ad in the calendars of) subscribers
who match the criteria for your target audience. In many cases, your Subscriber
event preferences might not match your own targeting criteria: Your age, your location,
your gender, your interests, or any other criteria can be a reason why you are not
seeing your own ad as a Subscriber. In addition, another advertiser might be outbidding
you to reach you with his/her campaign and you are getting his/her ad instead.
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Can I make suggestions regarding additional features and other
improvements?
Yes! We're still developing new features and ways to use Event Me, and your
input is vital to our success. If you have any suggestions for new features we can
offer or for any other improvements, write us at invite@EventMe.com.
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Still Have Questions? Contact Us
Having trouble with a link, think you have found a bug, or still haven't found the
answer to your questions? Write to us at (invite@EventMe.com)
or use the contact form, and we will help you!